Tseung Kwan O station

Tseung Kwan O

將軍澳
MTR MTR rapid transit station
Station Platform
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese將軍澳
Simplified Chinese将军澳
Literal meaningGeneral's Bay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāngjūn'ào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJēunggwān'ou
IPA[tsœ́ːŋ kʷɐ́n ʔōu]
JyutpingZoeng1gwan1ou3
General information
LocationTseung Kwan O
Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°18′27″N 114°15′36″E / 22.3074°N 114.26°E / 22.3074; 114.26
Owned byMTR Corporation
Operated byMTR Corporation
Line(s)Tseung Kwan O line
Platforms2 (1 island platform)
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
AccessibleYes
ArchitectAedas
Other information
Station codeTKO
History
Opened18 August 2002; 22 years ago (2002-08-18)
Services
Preceding station MTR MTR Following station
Tiu Keng Leng
towards North Point
 Tseung Kwan O line Hang Hau
towards Po Lam
LOHAS Park
Terminus
Track layout
Legend
to Hang Hau
to LOHAS Park
1
2
to Tiu Keng Leng
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Tseung Kwan O
Location within the MTR system

Tseung Kwan O (Chinese: 將軍澳; Cantonese Yale: Jēunggwān'ou; pronounced: [tsœŋ˥kʷɐn˥.ɔw˧]) is a station on the MTR Tseung Kwan O line located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The previous station is Tiu Keng Leng and the line splits after this station to LOHAS Park and Hang Hau. The entrances to the station are on Tong Chun Street, Popcorn Mall and Tong Yin Street. A public transport interchange is located outside the station. The architecture firm Aedas designed the station.[1]

History

Leighton-China State joint venture won the contract for the station.

Tsueng Kwan O station opened to the public on 18 August 2002, together with the spur line to Tsueng Kwan O Depot, right next to LOHAS Park station, but the station did not open until 26 July 2009.

Station layout

G Concourse Exits, transport interchange
Customer service, MTRshops
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
L1
Platform 		Platform 1 →      Tseung Kwan O line towards Po Lam (Hang Hau) →
→      Tseung Kwan O line towards LOHAS Park (Terminus) →
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2 ←      Tseung Kwan O line towards North Point (Tiu Keng Leng)

[2]

Entrances/exits

Hotels

Sun Hung Kai Properties developed a 359-room Crowne Plaza hotel, a 176-room Vega Suites hotel and a 300-room Holiday Inn Express hotel at Tseung Kwan O station as part of a comprehensive hotel and shopping complex.[3]

Shopping centre

The station is attached to an MTR-owned shopping centre called PopCorn that opened in 2012. It comprises over 40,000 square metres and houses about 150 retailers and a cinema.[4]

PopCorn is an anchor connecting the nearby malls of PopCorn 2, Park Central, and Tseung Kwan O Plaza. A public transport interchange is situated next to PopCorn and serves public light buses routes 103M, 110 and 112S, and Citybus routes 792M, 793, 796S, 796X, 798 and N796.

References

  1. ^ "Designers transfer Hong Kong know-how to Dubai's new metro". South China Morning Post. 2 December 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Tseung Kwan O Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  3. ^ Future Development Sun Hung Kai Properties - Hotels. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  4. ^ Kao, Ernest (24 August 2015). "Mother and 2 children injured as ceiling collapses at MTR shopping mall in Tseung Kwan O". South China Morning Post.
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